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cartographer Definition

car·tog·ra·pher (kär tägrə fər)

noun

a person whose work is making maps or charts

Etymology: see cartography

cartographer Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: At the age of 69 he became a cartographer.
  • influence: In spite of its inaccuracies in the interior, it was an important map, which influenced cartographers for a century or more.
  • enable: At the same time his methods enabled other cartographers to re-draw the map of the world far more accurately than hitherto.
  • know: Cartographers A list of all cartographers known to have worked for oil companies in Europe.

Converse of subject

  • produce: It represents almost all samples of China maps produced by European cartographers from the 16th to 19th centuries.
  • draw: The present consisted of an antique map of England and Wales, dating from 1753 and drawn by a famous French cartographer.
  • copy: An important map, much copied by other cartographers, still showing California as a peninsula.

Adjective modifier

  • Dutch: Trading used the Dutch cartographer of Bootsma for this issue.
  • leading: He was a leading cartographer in Europe, alongside Gerhard Mercator.
  • French: The present consisted of an antique map of England and Wales, dating from 1753 and drawn by a famous French cartographer.
  • German: Thereafter, for most of the sixteenth century, German cartographers led the way in producing town plans in a more modern sense.
  • European: It represents almost all samples of China maps produced by European cartographers from the 16th to 19th centuries.
  • professional: Penguins provided a professional cartographer, Leo Vernon, who brought them up to professional publishing standard.

Noun used with modifier

  • century: Clearly, the early 16th Century cartographers had no reliable coordinates for these features and used their imaginations rather freely.

Possessives

  • code: However a significant minority lack any clear date and there are some cartographers ' codes that are worth discovering.
  • imagination: It is now clear that the track is a figment of the cartographer's fertile imagination.

Possessives

  • country: Guano expeditions drew on the expertise of the country's best cartographers and naturalists, hired by maritime speculators seeking uncharted and fertile islands.